Arizona GOP congressional candidate: Slavery wasn’t so bad, ‘kept business rolling’

[HarveyDarkey]

By David Ferguson
Saturday, March 15, 2014 14:35 EDT



An Arizona Republican who is running to represent the state’s 2nd District in Congress wrote on Facebook that the institution of slavery wasn’t really so hard on slaves and was actually good for the economy.

According to the Root’s Keli Goff, Arizona congressional hopeful Jim Brown was trying to make a statement about federal spending and the nature of “entitlements” when he veered off course into racially offensive territory.

“Back in the day of slavery, slaves were kept in slavery by denying them education and opportunity while providing them with their basic needs,” wrote Brown. “Not by beating them and starving them,” he said, adding “Although there were isolated cases, of course.”

“Basically slave owners took pretty good care of their slaves and livestock and this kept business rolling along,” he said.

As Goff noted, “This flies in the face of all credible historical accounts.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/15/arizona-gop-congressional-candidate-slavery-wasnt-so-bad-kept-business-rolling/

[jsr]

1. Another goddamn skinhead.

[kardonb]

9. skinhead

another typical AZ. asshat. The sun has fried his brain to pea size .

[mzteris]

2. What a

Fucking idiot.

[peoli]

3. Arizona just keeps producing winner after winner after winner.....n/t

[brewens]

4. That's probably exactly backwards. There MAY have been isolated cases of a "good" slave owner that

at least fed them well and treated them relatively well. Now that would only pay-off if your slaves knew they had it better than the other owners slaves. I think they went to great lengths to avoid them ever knowing things like that and it's not something your brutal neighbor would appreciate.

[PCIntern]

5. Wow, if Rod Serling were still around,

you can only imagine the episode...

[FuzzyRabbit]

6. ". . . slave owners took pretty good care of their slaves and livestock . . ."

According to candidate Jim Brown, blacks and mules are the same thing. That pretty much sums up the Republican party's attitude towards minorities.

[shenmue]

7. What a jackass

No brains at all. None.

[jaysunb]

8. He's right

And if you want proof that it worked (for some) look at the current prison industrial complex. Prisoners are well fed, work hard and kept in line with threats of or actual violence.

The fact that this man seeks public office should come as no surprise as he just says what a large portion of our population and elected officials believe but don't say out loud in open company.

Such is America in 2014.

[Curmudgeoness]

10. Every time I hear one of these comments,

I really want these people who say them to be enslaved. After 10 or 20 years, I want to ask them again how they feel about it....even if their "master" doesn't beat them.

[jtuck004]

11. I'm thinking some re-election posters, with his face, that quote, and some pictures

of what slavery was really like might do his opponents a world of good, but in a way that doesn't invite an attack. Would have to think about that one, but voters need to be reminded of this in some way that doesn't let his apology mask what appears to be his true belief.

His apology below is much too little. The original writing "Basically slave owners took pretty good care of their slaves and livestock and this kept business rolling along," strikes me as too similar to what he wrote in his "apology":

"I made a post yesterday implying that the entitlement state being created in our country is similar to to the method slave owners used to keep their slaves under control. (Taking care of their basic needs while denying them real education and opportunity) Some people read this to mean that I didn't think slavery was that bad. I believe that slavery is worse than death - yesterday, today and tomorrow. I apologize to anyone I offended. If I had it to do over I would have been more careful with my wording, but you don't get do overs in politics. So, I'll have to pay the price for this. My platform is "responsibility" and I accept the responsibility.

Believe what you must about me, but know this; I care about every human being on this planet. Not too many people are more sensitive to pain and suffering than I am. I'm in this race because I think our leaders have let us down on both sides of the aisle. I know they have. I've made plenty of mistakes in my life. But I have and will apologize when I make them and learn from them as I move forward. Again, apologies to all I offended."

Here.

[lastlib]

12. typical Repug non-apology apology:

"I apologize if you were offended." ("If you weren't offended, well, it wasn't such a bad thing to say.&quot

Worthless fuck has no business anywhere close to any elected position except sewer cleaner.